The Next Supply Chain Concentration Risk May Be the AI Model Itself

Supply chains have spent decades trying to eliminate single points of failure.We dual-source critical components. We qualify alternate carriers. We diversify manufacturing footprints. We build redundant communications paths. We hold strategic inventory when the consequences of interruption justify it. Increasingly, we map sub-tier suppliers because the supplier we cannot see may be the one that shuts the network down.And now, just as artificial intelligence begins moving into the operational cor